FLASHBACK: In 2005, Nazareth golfer shared state girls title

October 25, 2010|Staff reports

A weekly look back at sports — in anniversaries in multiples of five — in the Lehigh Valley.

OCT. 25

2005 — Nazareth's Kimberly Snyder is declared the PIAA girls golfing co-champion when rain washes out the second round of the state tournament in York. Snyder's 79 puts her in a four-way tie for the championship.

1985 — In a battle between two 6-1 teams, Bethlehem Catholic holds Northampton to 65 total yards and takes a step toward the East Penn Conference title with a 28-0 win over the Konkrete Kids.

OCT. 26

2005 — Moravian announces its football team, a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference, will leave the conference to become an associate member of the Centennial Conference beginning with the 2007 season. The move reunites the Greyhounds with archrival Muhlenberg. Moravian officials hope the school's other programs can remain in the MAC.

1995 — Liberty's Janelle Thomas wins her third straight District 11 Class 3A girls cross country title by covering the 3.1-mile course at Lehigh University in 17:39.9.

1990 — Quakertown (8-1) holds Upper Merion to three first downs and 53 yards while posting its fifth shutout in a 33-0 win at Upper Merion. Backup Panther quarterback Jamie Sellers completes just four of 12 passes but all four go for touchdowns.

1985 — Emmaus' Jason Godusky runs for 267 yards on 47 carries but is overshadowed by Central Catholic's Kevin Sandt, who has touchdown runs of 98 (an East Penn Conference record) and 91 yards in the Vikings' 14-6 victory.

1955 — Saying he doesn't feel Central Catholic "can supply suitable competition for schools with such large enrollments," Vikings athletic director the Rev. Richard J. Loeper announces that the school will end its football series with Allentown and Bethlehem. Central is 0-6 against the Canaries, 0-9 against the Hurricanes.

1995 — Ira Van Scyoc runs for 280 yards and three touchdowns on 40 carries and Parkland rolls up a 502 yards in a 48-34 upset of previously unbeaten Bethlehem Catholic.

1990 — Bethlehem Catholic wins its 11th straight East Penn Conference girls volleyball title and avenges its only loss of the season with a 13-15, 15-13, 15-11 victory over Liberty in a playoff match at Dieruff.

1965 — Easton football coach Bobby Rute announces his plans to resign at the end of the season. Rute, however, would stay on for two more seasons, finishing with 130 wins in 20 years.

OCT. 28

2000 — Tim Barlok runs for 197 yards, 95 of them on a school-record touchdown run, in Moravian's 52-33 win at Susquehanna.

2000 — Freshman Matt Bernardo runs for 239 yards in his first collegiate start, the fourth-highest in Muhlenberg history, and scores three touchdowns in a 21-19 victory over Ursinus. The win gives the Mules their best Centennial Conference record since 1988 (5-2).

1965 — Bethlehem wraps up its seventh undefeated soccer season in eight years under Mike Bounassi but not before getting a scare from Easton in a 3-1 overtime victory, the Hurricanes' 24th straight. Bethlehem ties the game on a fourth-quarter penalty kick by Lou Vida, who then converts another in the second overtime to break the deadlock. Ray Scarpantonio's goal by Easton is only the eighth allowed by the Hurricanes during the year and only the 27th in 87 games under Bounassi (84-1-2).

1960 — In a showdown between the top two teams in the Lehigh-Northampton League, Lynn Rothrock's 61-yard screen pass to Jeff Marsh provides the game's only touchdown as Nazareth (6-0-1) downs Bangor (6-1), 7-0.

1970 — A crowd of 12,000 at Allentown School District Stadium watches Dieruff get two fourth-quarter touchdowns and hand Liberty its first loss after seven games in an 18-13 victory. John Bednarik's short touchdown run with 2:26 left provides the go-ahead score to snap the Hurricanes' overall 10-game win streak.

1960 — Center Valley's Eddie Sachs is injured and badly burned in a crash during practice for a 100-mile race in Sacramento, Calif., Sachs swerved to avoid a stalled car, flipped over several times and landed upside down.

OCT. 31

1970 — In a battle of unbeatens, Pen Argyl spots Wilson a touchdown on the game's first play, then methodically grinds out a 14-7 Lehigh-Northampton League victory. The touchdown came on the Warriors' only play in the first quarter as Pen Argyl ran off 72 plays while holding Wilson to 30.

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